V-Tech Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 One of the earliest stories of the science fiction cyberpunk sub-genre is being primed for television. Seven Arts and Prodigy Pictures announced their intention to bring the work of one of the genre's most influential authors, William Gibson, to the small screen. Gibson's "Johnny Mnemonic" short story paved the way for his trilogy of cyberpunk novels "Count Zero," "Mona Lisa Overdrive" and the classic "Neuromancer." "We are delighted to expand our relationship with Prodigy Pictures, which has had stellar successes in television and mini-series production," said Seven Arts' CEO Peter Hoffman. "Jay [Firestone of Prodigy Pictures] has been prominent in the area of international television production for over 20 years with a wide array of important relationships. Jay shares our enthusiasm for all three projects. He has already attached well-known television writers who were part of the successful 'Stargate' series to 'Johnny Mnemonic'." Some may remember the anemic and at times laughably bad "Johnny Mnemonic" film adaptation, starring Keanu Reeves as the titular courier tasked with transporting the cure for a deadly disease in his computer chip brain. Ice-T, Dolph Lundgren, and Henry Rollins rounded out the colorful cast of what wound up being an underwhelming science fiction effort. Seven Arts already has its thumb on the pulse of another anticipated project based on Gibson's work, as "Cube" director Vincenzo Natali is currently gearing up to adapt "Neuromancer" for the big screen. Hopefully the studio has a better line-up of talent to more faithfully adapt what are true modern classics of the science-fiction genre. Source: http://www.tvrage.com/news/6344/cyberpunk-story-johnny-mnemonic-being-adapted-for-television Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Hopefully a tad better than the film, but Seven Arts is a mid-budget production company (up to $15-20M) so don't get your hopes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 meh the film was cool. making it into tv series would make the whole thing seem a bit stretched out, unless he do different couriers every episode in which case it's not so much the movie as the universe... either way, there can never be to much SciFi and cyberpunk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 Movie != Gibson's short story. If they stick to the short story themes, and fully include & flesh out Molly Millions instead of using the movies much reduced 'Jane', it could be good. A spinoff of Molly's adventures could bring in a whole ton of Gibson's other material. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted April 27, 2013 Share Posted April 27, 2013 I generally don't judge movies on how they stick to the book, since they never do, and generally the ones that try to stick to the book suck as it was written to be a book not a movie. I'd rather have a Snow Crash movie/series anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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